The attacks of 9/11 changed the security concept of the world and showed that no country was immune to terrorist offenses any longer. The European Union, as well as the United States of America had to find some new and more efficient measures to fight terrorism. These measures included legislations to prevent terrorist offenses, to stop terrorist financing and other terrorism-related actions. Thus, a series of measures such as establishing an area of justice, or freezing funds suspected of helping terrorist aims has been implemented within the EU. As a result, member states became more coop...

Bill BAGATELAS*
Well published author, Bruno Sergi, a professor of international economics at the University of Messina, wrote this new, provocative book entitled “Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of Putin and His Presidency,” (Continuum, New York). This impressive work has been completed while teaching at New York University during 2005 and 2007. He reinterprets the Russians, Russia, and Vladimir Putin more fairly than the West overall thus far. Today, we can confidently state this new analysis is vastly more realistic and accurate as it captures Putin, Russi...